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  1. Re:Calculus? on Flies That Do Calculus With Their Wings · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, it is doing calculus with a highly optimized analog computer. Amazing what Mother Nature can do given enough time.

  2. Nancy Pelosi stated that they were afaid to fix it on Church Committee Members Say New Group Needed To Watch NSA · · Score: 3, Informative

    “You don’t fight it without a price because they come after you and they don’t always tell the truth."

    http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/...

  3. The Terminal Man? on Is DIY Brainhacking Safe? · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Diesels are better? on Paris Bans Half of All Cars On the Road · · Score: 1

    He is referring to the urea tank used to clean the emissions.

  5. Re:What about Hummer? on Elon Musk Addresses New Jersey's Tesla Store Ban · · Score: 2

    Hummer (GM) : Renco Group : LTV Aerospace : AM General ( American Motors) : Kaiser : Willys-Overland : Overland Automotive : Standard Wheel Company

    In other words, Hummer's roots go back further than many modern auto companies.

  6. Dear Diane... on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you want to see what real hackers are about, come on down to H.O.P.E. this year, http://www.hope.net./ We're just a short walk away from the New York Times at the Hotel Pennsylvania.

    See you there!

  7. Re:2600 vindicated? on US Drops Link Sharing Charges Against Barrett Brown · · Score: 1

    One can only H.O.P.E. http://www.hope.net/

  8. Damage to the Internet on Interview: Ask Eric Raymond What You Will · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What's your opinion of the damage done to the Internet by the NSA scandal, and potentially by, the Comcast TWC merger?

  9. Re:Keuring coffee? No thanks. on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 2

    Probably tastes better, too.

  10. Has anyone ever gotten... on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    a decent cup of coffee out of a Keurig machine anyway?

  11. Re:What's in car bumpers? on Radar Expert Explains How To Cheaply Add Radar To Your Own Hardware Projects · · Score: 3, Informative

    Utrasonic SONAR is used for parking proximity parking sensors.

  12. Re:Walk before you can run code on Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Ha! We used patch panels and patch cords to write our code. I don't know about those high falutin punch cards, probably a fad.

  13. After being convicted on "Microsoft Killed My Pappy" · · Score: 1

    Most people would find it difficult to find a job the remainder of their lives. Microsoft should be grateful for how easy it was for them.

  14. Translation... on White House Responds To Net Neutrality Petition · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Comcast sent us more campaign donations than you did.

  15. Re:Translation: Piss off, Peasants on White House Responds To Net Neutrality Petition · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please don't let facts get in the way of a perfectly good teabagger diatribe.

  16. Re:too late on Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2 · · Score: 1

    Plan 9 predates Linux, nobody was open sourcing a commercial product back then.

    The most commercial product, I can think of, that went open source, was Blender.

  17. Re:Irony on 'CandySwipe' Crushed: When Game Development Turns Nasty · · Score: 1

    I think the owners of the film should sue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    BTW, wild flick.

  18. Re:Job interview on Ask Slashdot: How Do You To Tell Your Client That His "Expert" Is an Idiot? · · Score: 1

    Could be worse, I once had a potential Nobel Laureate, at a national laboratory, demand that I announce machine crashes in advance.

  19. Re:Why gouv pay for it in the first place? on Oil Companies Secretly Got Paid Twice For Cleaning Up Toxic Fuel Leaks · · Score: 2

    The majority of those stations were built and owned by the oil companies. They later moved to a different model and sold the stations to third parties. Once the issue of laking tanks was discovered, it turns out that many/most of those stations had negative value ( ie. the cost to clean-up was greater than the value of the gas station ). How convenient the oil companies had just completed divesting themselves of these stations when the problems were discovered.

    The oil companies screw the American Public yet again.

  20. Re:Just another reason to abolish the DEA on DEA Presentation Shows How Agency Hides Investigative Methods From Trial Review · · Score: 1

    They got that covered, they'll change names to the Hacker Enforcement Agency. Problem solved.

  21. Re:They should call it an anti-retention device on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    Congratulations! You're management has set a new world's record for consecutive hours playing Solitaire.

  22. Re:NO. They Want To Change From Switched to IP on FCC Wants To Trial Shift From Analog Phone Networks To Digital · · Score: 1

    This has been coming for 30 years, can you say ISDN?

  23. Re:Huh? on FCC Wants To Trial Shift From Analog Phone Networks To Digital · · Score: 4, Informative

    Digital has been around a lot longer than that, T1's were introduced in 1962. This is changing from circuit switched to IP. Enabling the carriers to jam more call over less wires/fibers than before. This will, of course, increase profits, but not reduce your bill.

  24. Re:The real motive on FCC Wants To Trial Shift From Analog Phone Networks To Digital · · Score: 4, Informative

    Make that "ARE currently unregulated."

  25. The real motive on FCC Wants To Trial Shift From Analog Phone Networks To Digital · · Score: 4, Insightful

    AT&T and Verizon are pushing this. Why? Digital services aren't currently unregulated. Digital services are non-unionized. Digital services don't currently require universal service. Digital services are not required to be repaired in a timely basis. Unless the FCC declares digital services to be common carriers instead of information providers, we are going to get screwed and hard!